She has been performing so much with so many different artists, that she finally developed an easier-to-spell and say stage name, Mia Maria.

When asked what she'd really like to be doing, the answer comes quickly.

"If I were lucky enough to get everything I wanted this year, I'd find myself preparing to tour with Lady Gaga," Filippini said.

Over the course of the last couple years, Filippini had a few chance meetings with Lady Gaga and some members of her management team, which eventually lead to an audition tape request from the pop superstar herself.

Filippini contacted me about hiring the Love Drunk crew to help her put together a high-quality audition video.

She wanted to blow Gaga's socks off.

"I arranged a few Lady Gaga songs into a short, three-minute piece for the sake of the video," Filippini says. "I knew it wasn't going to be the kind of thing Love Drunk normally does."

I initially agreed that this didn't sound like a Love Drunk video. While Filippini's arrangement of Gaga's songs was really quite beautiful, it was after all, not an original piece.

Is it just to document our thriving, yet sometimes fledgling music scene? Do these projects — and the passionate people behind the scenes — serve a greater purpose?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I believe we can fully agree on one thing: We are here to lift each other up.

Filippini has played dozens and dozens of shows, and recorded on several records for many different local performing artists — most of the time for free. I've never heard her ask anyone for anything.

I like to stay true to Love Drunk's live, one-take original music format. And while this song is not a Mia Maria original, I think the purpose of this music video project, in this case, supercedes the rule.